By
MikeH on
April 1, 2013
Did you know the DiabetesMine team were secret artists, painting masterpieces with our lancets in our garage studios by night?
Yeah… April Fool’s! Actually we’ve got, well… close to zilch artistic ability.
But our new friend Cathy Leamy in the Boston area is one of those people who REALLY has talent, and is using her comic-creating capabilities to raise awareness on important healthcare topics.
Cathy tells us she’s been doing comics and cartoons for most…
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By
MikeH on
January 23, 2013
Nearly 20 years ago, it was the sleepiness and crackly, dry skin that first alerted me something was wrong. Not diabetes, as I’d already been living with type 1 for close to a decade at that time.
No, these symptoms were different.
I had a visibly enlarged gland on the side of my neck, so swollen that it would sometimes hurt when I tried to turn my head. The dry skin was coarse and almost…
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By
MikeH on
October 4, 2012
One particular moment doesn’t stand out about the MedicineX conference at Stanford University this past week. Instead, it was all of the moments!
What I keep coming back to in my mind is the recurring theme of this event: that the voice of the patient is incredibly meaningful, and should be a part of the healthcare process, from beginning to end.
That, IMHO, is was what the three-day MedX conference was all about. A few…
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By
MikeH on
September 12, 2012
A controversial TechCrunch post recently declared: we may no longer need doctors, just algorithms. I don’t know about that, but as a person struggling with a chronic condition each day, I think we mostly need each other.
I’m convinced that I am healthier because I’m active in the diabetes online community. Thanks to the wonders of social media and online networking, I have a better handle on my D-management than I would if I weren’t…
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Today we’re chatting with another of our awesome winners of this year’s Patient Voices Contest for our DiabetesMine Innovation Summit: Kathleen Peterson, a 29-year-old nanny and soon-to-be graduate student from Seattle, WA, who has lived with type 1 diabetes for 12 years. Kathleen is intimately familiar with the power of diabetes technology, having participated in a clinical trial for the Artificial Pancreas Project.
Kathleen shares with us her thoughts on the importance of device durability…
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